Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics by gender among aware hypertensive participants.
| Characteristics | Categories | Gender |
Total | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male (%) | Female (%) | ||||
| Age groups | <40 years | 5 (9.3) | 8 (12.5) | 13 (11.0) | 0.67 |
| 40–59 years | 31 (57.4) | 39 (60.9) | 70 (59.3) | ||
| ≥60 years | 18 (33.3) | 17 (26.6) | 35 (29.7) | ||
| Education | No formal education | 8 (14.8) | 12 (25.0) | 48 (40.7) | <0.01 |
| Primary and lower | 8 (14.8) | 40 (62.5) | 19 (16.1) | ||
| Secondary | 26 (48.1) | 11 (17.2) | 35 (29.7) | ||
| Bachelor and higher | 12 (22.2) | 9 (14.1) | 16 (13.6) | ||
| Ethnicity | Brahman | 18 (33.3) | 21 (32.8) | 39 (33.1) | 0.38 |
| Chhetri | 15 (27.8) | 19 (29.7) | 34 (28.8) | ||
| Newar | 15 (27.8) | 11 (17.2) | 26 (22.0) | ||
| Others (Dalit, Janajati) | 6 (11.1) | 13 (20.3) | 19 (16.1) | ||
| Occupation | Job | 15 (27.8) | 2 (3.1) | 17 (14.4) | <0.01 |
| Self employed | 15 (27.8) | 4 (6.2) | 19 (16.1) | ||
| Homemaker | 8 (14.8) | 53 (82.8) | 61 (51.7) | ||
| Others (unemployed, retired) | 16 (29.6) | 5 (7.8) | 21 (17.8) | ||
| Poverty | Above poverty line | 31 (57.4) | 32 (48.4) | 62 (52.5) | 0.04 |
| Below poverty line | 23 (42.6) | 33 (51.6) | 56 (47.5) | ||
Primary and lower education, grade 1–5; secondary, grade 6–12; Job, governmental or non-governmental employment; self-employed, working for oneself as a freelancer or the owner of a business or working in own farm; homemaker, a person, especially a housewife, who manages a home; other occupation, volunteer or student or unemployed or retired; below poverty line, income less than 40,933 Nepalese rupees per annum.